Letters | Camp BraveHearts, political dysfunction, nuclear power

Camp BraveHearts

Thank you for the wonderful feature on Len Wallace and "The Zipper Club."

Monday was a very appropriate day to publish Len's story since that was the day a chartered bus left Louisville to take about 45 children to a week-long Camp BraveHearts at The Center for Courageous Kids in Scottsville, Ky. My 10-year-old granddaughter was one of them, attending for her fourth time. Her goal is to attend camp as long as she is eligible and then become a camp counselor.

This is a wonderful experience for children who have had congenital heart defects, most eligible for Len's Zipper Club from open-heart surgeries. They swim, practice archery, ride horses, have boat rides, play with camp pets, make crafts and much more. They develop new friends and look forward to seeing them the next year. It is an unbelievably fun week for the campers at no cost.

The center was established by Betty Turner (now deceased), the daughter of the founder of Dollar General Stores. Each year there are camp sessions for children with asthma, muscular dystrophy, sickle cell anemia, diabetes, physical disabilities, cancer and cardiac issues. I encourage your readers to go to www.thecenterforcour-­ageouskids.org to learn more about this great place supported by donations.

The kids who left Louisville Monday are assisted by the the Kosair Children's Hospital Foundation and welcome donations to the Foundation marked for BraveHearts.

This letter is not meant just to solicit funds. It is to encourage others to go on the camp website and learn more about what is available for Kentucky's children. It is an extraordinary camp, and I cannot praise the doctors, nurses and support staff enough for making this opportunity available.

DOTTIE WEED

Fisherville, Ky. 40023

Political dysfunction

Republicans are in an acutely dysfunctional limbo at their own choosing. There are tense times set for Congress as the two parties face strife over key issues, such as fights over President Obama's nominations, disputes over student loans and the farm bill, where even courteous behavior within the GOP ranks has barely been perceptible with the ignominious failure of the farm bill, not to mention whether our lawmakers have political will to rewrite immigration law.

Delaying tactics on judges and nominations by the Republicans risk descending from dysfunction to total failure. Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has assigned Democrats a status separate from, and unequal to, the one accorded the minority Senate Republicans.

Upon Democrats is a special restriction, and for them, there is a fundamental dimension of the human experience that is off-limits: the irresistible pressure to respond in kind to the obstructiveness of the GOP. That is, we can be nasty, but you can't, so says good ol' Mitch. But he has already descended from dysfunction to total failure as a Republican leader.

B.J. PASCHAL

Muncie, Ind. 47304

Nuclear power

After reading about the mess at the Paducah nuclear fuel plant, I want thank to those who fought so hard to keep the Marble Hill nuclear power plant from going online.

SAM SLOSS

Louisville 40205

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Letters | Camp BraveHearts, political dysfunction, nuclear power

Thank you for the wonderful feature on Len Wallace and 'The Zipper Club.' Monday was a very appropriate day to publish Len?s story since that was the day a chartered bus left Louisville to take about